#17 Let ALL Black Lives Matter
There are about over 2 billion black people in the world. That’s who you are advocating for when you say black lives matter.
#16 Of Loss And Grief: You Only Have To Go Through It Once
That is the silver lining I am going for here, whatever loss you have suffered, you never have to endure again, you will never have to feel a pain like that again.
#15 Free Will: Something Close To My Heart
Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.
#14 “Ukuchithwa Kwempahla”- A Practice From My Culture
I respect culture and tradition- they have not asked a lot of me so when they asked me to help take down my dad’s wardrobe and give it away, I complied.
#13 Should I Ever Be So Lucky As To Meet Mandla N
While we wait for our coffee (because we are meeting over coffee, what did you think? )
#12 21 December 1979
Oppression is so much easier to take and so much easier to make sense of when it comes from somebody who does not look like you or eat your food or speak your mother’s language. When it comes from your brother, your fellow man, it is not only disappointing but it is far more insulting that anything the white man ever did to us.
#11 Five Proverbs In My Vernacular
I think we have managed to rather artistically weave years of anger and resentment and repression into quite the vocabulary.
#10 Please Tell Shonda To Hire Me
Point is somebody should get this message to Shonda. I am placing all my faith in the six degrees of separation. So somebody, work your magic.
#9 Four Social Media Accounts That I Follow (And You Should Too)
I would go instead to the list of accounts they follow. I think these say more about them than any message in their DMs
# 8 Three Things I Wish African Content Creators Avoided
And I will be speaking on audio-visual content mostly because that’s what I consume the most. So here are three things that I think African content creators should avoid.